Forgotten history. Lost Future

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What’s to become of a celebrity-obsessed generation that’s forgetting its history?

That is the relevant question asked by this campaign from the Apartheid Museum in South Africa.

The campaign, developed by TBWAHUNTLASCARIS, can be described as an intelligent and socially relevant one. Though the primary aim of the campaign is to attract south Africans, particularly younger south Africans, it also raises some serious questions for introspection to the south Africans.

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As part of the campaign, they went on the streets of Johannesburg with their cameras. They simply asked them to identify a series of famous people. First popular culture icons and lastly a famous anti-apartheid leader. Over 86% of the people interviewed easily recognised the popular figures and failed to identify the South African anti-apartheid leader.

They turned these interviews into television, radio and viral adverts, to be launched on the days leading up to Freedom Day.

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